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A portion of Grady Gammage Auditorium, an imaginative creation of legendary archictect Frank Lloyd Wright at Arizona State University in Tempe
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The process that would lead to the multipurpose performance hall began in 1957 when incumbent ASU President Grady Gammage desired a unique auditorium for the university's main campus. In 1956, a collapsed roof rendered a facility that served as an auditorium and gymnasium unusable, propelling the movement toward a new auditorium. Gammage recruited his friend Wright to take part in its design, which he based on one for an opera house in Bagdhad after the 1958 Iraqi coup d'etat. Both Wright and Gammage died in 1959, and the auditorium's design was completed by Wright's protégé, William Wesley Peters.
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Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112)
Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
In 2015, documentary photographer Carol Highsmith received a letter from Getty Images accusing her of copyright infringement for featuring one of her own photographs on her own website. It demanded payment of $120. This was how Highsmith came to learn that stock photo agencies Getty and Alamy had been sending similar threat letters and charging fees to users of her images, which she had donated to the Library of Congress for use by the general public at no charge. In 2016, Highsmith has filed a $1 billion copyright infringement suit against both Alamy and Getty stating “gross misuse” of 18,755 of her photographs. “The defendants [Getty Images] have apparently misappropriated Ms. Highsmith’s generous gift to the American people,” the complaint reads. “[They] are not only unlawfully charging licensing fees … but are falsely and fraudulently holding themselves out as the exclusive copyright owner.” According to the lawsuit, Getty and Alamy, on their websites, have been selling licenses for thousands of Highsmith’s photographs, many without her name attached to them and stamped with “false watermarks.” (more: http://hyperallergic.com/314079/photographer-files-1-billion-suit-against-getty-for-licensing-her-public-domain-images/)
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